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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-25
JANES D. HAUGHEY,

Hubbard &; Bissell, successors to Hubbard
e Haywood, ia Main st, are agents for
these companies. Host
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KsAL ESTATE TmAN,rnns.

The following are zoe re Al estate transfers
recorded in the register of deeds Office yester-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
In a Dutch Prison.

A prison in Hollond is rather an en-
bellishment than a Disagreement to a
town, at least such is the fine new pen
itentiary at Leeuwarden, n OF the
most famous prisons in Holland, n a
model of its kind. It is completely
built of stone, bricks and iron, conse.
quently freproof; %staircases, halls, and
workshops are built with mathematical
precision and such n as to permit
of constant surveillance. The yards
are large and spacious, all the rooms
whitewashed from top to bottom and
we'll ventilated, the inner and outer
walls ever bearing witness to the pro-
verbal Dutch cleanliness. The steps
and passages are equally clean, and
you would look in vain for a soiled spot
or a grain of dust. Not o cracked or a
furnished pane of glass q he found in
the whole building. Everything is
washed, brushed and waxed with a care
we might we'll envy in many of our
American homes. The dormitories are
regularly scrubbed every day and we'll
ventilated. Their aspect is, however,
curious. Each consists of q large
white-washed, asphalt-ioored room, in
the center of which is IN immense IRON
trellised cage, armed on the inside with
spikes. This cage is divided into over
one hundred cells, each separated by
sheet-iron walls; each has its bed, con-
sisting of q thin mattress, a pillow, a
pair of sheets of coarse texture, and two
coverlets.
Each night the prisoners are locked
in these narrow cells, and thus repose
perfectly isolated from each other. All
around the dormitory run iron water
pipes, with taps fixed at intervals, at
which the convicts are supposed to per-
form their additions. Water is general
throughout the whole prison, and is to
be met with on each story. Baths,
which the prisoners are compelled to
make use Of at stated times, are on the
ground floor. The prisoners have three
meals per day. In the morning, luke
warm milk and water and q piece of
dry bread; at midday, o soup composed
of vegetables; in the evening, coffee
and brown bread. Sometimes they are
allowed a small quantity of meat, but
more often bacon. The prisoners,
however, q improve upon this food
by the money they earn. They have,
in fact, a small interest in their work,
fo%ur-sixths of which is at their disposal,
the balance being very properly CAPT
talized and handed to them on their
dismissal. Everything is conducted
with military discipline in a Dutch
prison, which allows neither of ill-will
nor question. The dungeons, q kind OF
subterranean cells, are for the unruly,
and iron for the mutinous. No CONVEX.
sation is allowed between the prisoners,
during hours of work. Perfect order
prevails, as a rule, and attempts at es'
cape are events unknown.-Brooklyn
Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
Female Curiosity.

The servant girl of a boarding-house
went to the door to get the mail.
Letter,carrier-Here is a letter for
Judge Pennybunker. Does he live
here? ave
Servant-Yes, he has the front room
he is a rich old bachelor. Is the Letter
addressed in a female hand?
Eyes. here it is"
Good gracious! So it is, and &c
sur as I am born there is a Photograph IL
Pennybunker." 'ooee
addressed in q female hand, too9n
NO, this n is from Partem g.
SSqueal, the great divorce LAWYERS ~
In n21r: name is printed on the envelope :"
wen, that settles it,"
Settles what?"
Nothing, except 1 was going to o,;+
1nls boarding-house on the LIST. bnt NOW now
I'm going to stay right here and u saa
this thing ut."-Teras Siflinos SD0 see
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
Cheervble Brothers.

Readers of "Nicholas Nickelby" need
not be reminded of the "CheeryDle
Brothers" says a writer in Temple bar.
The originals we're the Messrs. Grant
whose extensive, if somewhat eccentric,
b%enevolence was we'll known; to whom
Dickens was introduced, in company
with Mr.. John Morley, by Mr.. W. Har-
rison Ainsworth, at a dinner given ny
Mr.. Gilbert Winter in 1858. The sur
vivors of the brothers used always to
put sum of money in his pocket to give
away in the course Of the day. A
clergyman asked him for a subscrip-
ton.
"Put your hand in my side pocket
and you shall have all you can find in
it." The parson did so, and fished up
q sovereign. "You are welcome to it."
said Mr.. Grant. "only mind it is the
only coin 1 have left"
He once asked the same clergyman
at dinner what his education cost him.
ga matter of e2, 900" was his answer.
II am afraid" said the questioner,
Education is not a good investment.
Here you spent e. 900 on your educa-
ton, and, as you tell me, your curacy
is only s15O o year. Ny education
cost me nothing, and I am making a
good many thousands q year. But 1
dare say you will get some interest
somewhere else"-looking upward
land as I believe you are doing good,
whenever you are in want of couple of
hundred pounds or SO, come to my
warehouse and I'll oblige you"
But they were shrewd men, their
benevolence Notwithstanding. A master
one day wanted some work done which
could only be managed by a certain
skilled workman. Unfortunately the
man was given to drink. So a bargain
was struck, that, besides his wages, he
should have gin and water ad libitum.
"Now mind" said the master, "you
promise to drink up what l first give
you before you touch q drop more"
As the work went on the mar asked
for his gin.
"How much will you start WITH"
"Sixpenn'orth."
"Now gin and water, mind you; and
you must drink it all before you drink
again. Hot or cold?"
"Cold."
"All right. Here goes. Bring me q
pail of water"
1t was brought, and into that the gin
was poured. The man was dumb
founded, but he was held to his bargain,
and the work got done. As he went
away-sober, of course, and with his
wages in his pocket--he turned round
and faced his employer.
master" said he, there's no one can
get the better o'thee but one, and that's
tn ould chap hisself."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
Jackson's s%sOrnymint.v

"The trouble with the wimmen these
days is that they all want to be orny-
mits. They git more wuthless and
non-account ev'ry day of their lives"
THAT'S jist bout So, MI. Hayseed.
The wimmen are developin' a speerit
of Independence that ought to be
curbed-cut off short, as it were"
They were a pair of grangers of the
oid-fashionedtype horny-handed, hard
v1saged and narrowly conservative.
"Now, there's Lem Jackson's wife"
n Of them said; II do'no how Lem
ever does put up with her shiflessness
and uppish ways"
"she's n O. them ornymintal kind
OF wimmin, hey?"
II should say so. All she's got to do
is to cook for only eight in family, milk
nine COWS, tend to the garden and
LENS onion patch, and helpin the field
q little in plantin' and hayin' time.
Wimmen amt no count NOWADAYS no.
how. They all want to set round and
be ornymints like LENS wife IBID
Bits, -"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
Spiders as a Delicacy.

The meals of Charlemange consisted
never of more than four courses, and
his favorite dishes were eggs and roast
meat, particularly venison, which was
served on long spits by his ~foresters.
Luther preferred Torgau beer and book
to all other beverages, says the Pail
Mall Gazette. As q young man Me
lancthon was very fond of barley soup,
and he would often exchange a diet of
meat for q bowl of barley soup. Small
fish, vegetables, and oil kinds of fari-
naceous food he liked, but large fish
and meat he disliked, and he hated all
public meals and drinking bouts.
Torquato Tasso was very fond Of pre-
served fruits and of all kinds of fancy
sweets. Henry ~. was often ill from
eating too many oysters or melons. His
favorite drink was win d'Arbois. Peter
the Great liked nothing better than
limburger cheese. Charles XII, King
of Sweden, preferred a piece of bread
and butter to anything. Voltaire, like
Frederick the Great and Napoleon l.,
was very fond of coffee. His favorite
food was oat-cakes, but he preferred
oranges to any other kind of fruit.
The Dutch lady scholar, A. NJ.
Schurmann, ate spiders as a delicacy.
Leasing preferred l%entils, and Klop-
stock, who was a real gourmand, fed on
salmon, mushrooms, pastry, and
smoked meat. Of vegetables he liked
peas best and grapes as a dessert, to-
gether with o bottle of good claret or
hook. Kant retained till his old g a
preference for pork, all kinds of pulse
and stewed fruit. He devoted three
hours q day to his dinner. Schiller
was in his youthful days very fond of
ham. An old notebook belonging to o
Stuttgart restaurant contains some
items about "Meals for DR.. Schiller in
1882" from which it appears that. be-
sides a bottle of wine, ham was every
day among the dishes on Schiller;s
table.
Matthison confessed a preference for
peas, beans, and pork; Lord Byron for
Chester cheese, with ale or porter:
Pope was "greatly Interested" in veni-
son. Jonathan Swift in turbot, and Sir
Walter Scott in roast goose.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
Tough vs.. Tender Beef.

The question is often raised, what
makes meat tough? A contemporary
lately stated that "the toughest and
most tasteless meat is that of o 2-year-
old steer fed fat from calfhood and then
allowed to shrink in transit to market"
Tasteless it undoubtedly would be,
since the loss would be in the juices and
fatty matter deposited between the
fbers Of muscle. It is we'll known that
q thin animal is always tough, COM
paratively, and according to age, and
for the reason before stated. The
muscles are not filled with the fluids
that render them readily d~isintegrable.
For the same reason an animal thin in
flesh, unless very old, if quickly fat
tened, will be juicy and tender; that is,
the muscle will be fat and juicy rather
than lean and dry.
But the mistake should not be made
as between firm flesh and that which is
tough. Where the animal is fully fed
from birth until killed, whatever the
age, the flesh will be firm, but not
tough; but the longer it is kept the
irmer the flesh will be. If kept up to
that trim when it can no longer be made
to gain steadily then the flesh will be-
come really tough, and in this sense an
animal arrived at full maturity and al
lowed TO shrink becomes tough in the
true sense of the word. The shrinkage
of such an animal is also inevitable in
transit, since so good conditions of ease
and feeding cannot be given as when at
home. This is also approximately cor
rect in all highly-fattened animals.
whatever their age.
The most juicy, f%rm-Aeshed, and
tender beef is that killed where fed and
then transported in refrigerator cars.
It is also the most healthful to eat.
since fever and other disorganizing in.
fuences are constantly at work from the
time the animal leaves the stall or pas
ture until killed. The most juicy and
palatable beef is that which has been
we'll wintered and then quickly fatteped
on flush, %succulent pasture, killed, and
shipped dead in proper cars. The
worse meat is that transported from the
far west, thousands of miles to Atlantic
cities or to Europe alive. And vet
railways seem determined to continue
to discriminate in favor of carving live
animals instead of dead meat. The
reason is probably q business one not
difficult to guess.-Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
Why She Ran AWAY.

A we'll known citizen had his wife a.
rested on q charge of running away
from him and taking several valuable
articles with her.
Madam" said the Judge, "the mere
act of your running away from your
husband is a violation of non other
than that great moral law, and for
which you will have to answer before
the Judge of judges. But as you have
been arraigned on q charge of taking
your husbands property, 1 would like
to ask you a few questions. Ihear that
you had q very pleasant home?"
Yes, sir; very pleasant" the woman
replied.
"Your husband was very kind to you,
1 understand"
YES, sir; very kind"
"You left him, then, because you did
not love him?"
ooh, no, sir; I love John very much. "
What! ran away from home when
you love your husband?"
eyes, sir"
MADAM will you please explain"
II will try, sir. Some time ago Mrs.
Jeckleton, q away and although we
all knew her to be as ugly as q night
mare, the newspapers, in speaking of
the incident, said that she was hand
some. A little later, Mrs. Brockrain,
who has a hair mole on her face, is
cross-eyed and as yellow asa pest-l ouse
flag, ran away and the newspapers said
that she was beautiful. These facts
preyed upon my mind. I had always
longed to be called beautiful, so, 1 ran
away in order that I might see myself
co~mplimented."
"Madam, I suppose you are now sor-
ry that you took such a foolish step"
eyes, SIR"
"Sorry, madam, because YOU now see
the vanity and weakness of allowing
yourself to be s perniciously led
a%stray?"
"No, sir"
What! not sorry on that accout2"
"No. sir"
"Then why are you sorry?"
Because the newspapers did not
speak of me at all. "-Arkanso1u T1.ay-
eleT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
The Interior of a Pompeiian House.

A well-known house in Pompeii (No.
80, in the second insula of the eighth
region), named after the Emperor
Joseph H., who visited it when first
laid bare, q century ago, has lately been
completely excavated. It is three
storied and of terrace construction.
having been built against the steep side
of the mountain. The upper story
presents the usual plan of o
Roman house. A staircase of twenty
eight very we'll preserved steps Of
Vesuvian lava, divided into three flights
or landings, leads to the lower floor.
The topmost landing and the two upper
portions of the staircase have wooden
balusters; the lower portion, which is
also the largest, is vaulted over. Two
very plain rooms, with rough walls, one
of them having o hearth, open on to
this staircase. At its foot there is q
long passage leading to q back stair
case, which again led to the upper story.
Proceeding, however, straight on, the
visitor will find himself in q court or
kind of peristyle, on each of two sides
of which there are two chambers, the
third side being occupied by q large
room, most probably the triclinium or
dinning-room. The fourth side opens
on to q great terrace, from which the
courtyard and the rooms are lighted,
Beneath this terrace is the lowest story.
comprising the various offices, kitchen,
bakery, mill bath, etc. The bath con-
sists of a tcpidarium, a vaulted room,
with o white mosaic floor, the walls
painted yellow; a calidarium, also
vaulted, the walls adorned with
pictures on a red ground, the floor
mosaic; the frigidarium, circular, as
usual, having a cupola formed vaulted
room, with an air opening in the middle,
furnished with a wide ventilating shaft
of terra Gotta, which leads upward
through the floor of the superimposed
terrace into the open air. There are
four inches in the wall of the frigidarium
furnished with slabs for sitting. The
floor is ornamented with mosaia-Lon.
don Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

The death has recently occurred of
James Nicholson, the last survivor of
the storm-beaten passengers of the
Forfarshire, who were rescued by
Grace Darling. He never forgot that
awful night when he and all in the rig
ging thought an angel, with long, yell
low hair floating in the wind, appeared,
pulling vigorously to their ships side
through the storm and drift; but he
very rarely spoke of it. He, however,
had enough of the sea, and for twenty
six years afterward he drove q locomo-
tive on the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railroad. He was II years old and in
the employment of an oil company
when he died.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

"WHY did you leave Poughkeepsie?"
asked Artemus Ward, in a tone of mild
%reproach, when o tramp struck him for
a dime on Broadway. The tramp said
he never heard of the place before. But
there will soon be no excuse for any
person being ignorant about Pough-
keepsie, for there is to he o bridge
across the Hudson at that point that
will be nearly as immense an affair as
the New York and Brooklyn bridge.
Railroad trains will cross at an eleva-
tion of 212 feet above the water, and
the entire length of the structure with
its approaches will be about two miles.
Work is advancing rapidly now.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
A Good Woman.

II can't imagine" said Mr.. johnson
to his wife, what you can see in that
Mrs. Gadabout."
ooh, she is such q sweet woman"
Perhaps she is, but sweets are not
wholesome"
"And she is such a good woman"
ooh, is she? How does she show it ?
1 never could see any of it."
"Why, how you talk! There isn't a
church fair or entertainment of any
kind that she isn't into with all her
might. Can't see her goodness, in
deed! Maybe if you had q little more
yourself you could."-PiNsbu1yA Dis
DatCh,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

MABEL: "Give us cake, aunt;e, r
knoM you've got n in your basket y y
Auntle ian early riser): "No, deo.
oney are roses l have been gather;na
and they wouldn't like being given - ls ,
young girl who gets up SO i ate IL 20 a
morning." Mabel: eco on an .ne
they wouldn't mind; they laws in nu 4hae,
ana nobody don't pick them" oN"uce'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
A Terrible Sea Monster.

The first time I struck the boH}
couldn't believe I was there. Itv1
clear as air and the fishes SWIM
around might have been taken
birds. I landed on o kind of sand
when they lowered me and had to
about fifty feet down into q vale!
before I struck the shells. They
all in a bunch. stretched along
ridge, looking like q black mark ag1
the white bottom. 1 was dragging
hamper and when L got alongsidelt
to toss them in. reckon I had J
half a dozen or so, when all at oncel
Q kind OF shadow moving over me.
first [ thought it was the scha
and then, perhaps some Of
other divers coming down,
then it left: but all
once it came again and grew so dn
a second that l turned quick andh
up, and I'm telling you the
mister, if my hair hadn't been
down by q copper cap it would hsT
right on end. There, a-movin' ot3
was what [ took to be a BIRDS
thirty feet across. It was wha
round and round, tapping its big VI
Just as you've seen buzzards or
do, overhead. Down it came,
and lower, and 1 a-crouching as b
!! could get. The nearer it so
bigger it looked, and as I see it NJ
settling on me I took the pike 10
carried, and as it wheeled around
me | let drive. Hitit? Well, Ira
l did: The next thing I knew
standing on my head, rolling over
over, then yanked sideways,
drownded, and then I reckon l Log
senses, and when I came to l was
on deck and all hands looking att
j. You see, the critter had give
water such a swirl that I was knH
end for end, and my pipe and
twisted around and around so "
couldn't breath, and, of course
pulled the line and the men, ltho's
had jerked it to come up 50
hauled away for all they were y
and that's what saved my life
was it? Why, nothin' but one OF
sea bats-blanket fish the Other
called it-and they all said ! haa'
row run for it. That was the way s
In to their say, that the fish sS1
work to get away with a man;
hrst settle down on you like 8 pD
and there you are. There wasns,
that would go down after that 10
eral days Cincinnati ComM'
Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

AN attempt has been made in the
Maternity Hospital, Glasgow, to raise
babies in q queer way. Triplets were
born there prematurely six and a half
months old. They were put nakedinto
a wooden box, divided into two COM
partments, upper and lower. They
crawled around, OIL, rather, lay helpless,
in the upper compartment, while hot
water bottles in the lower compartment
kept the air as hot as any triplet could
wish. A moist sponge prevented too
great dryness and q thermometer regu-
lated the supply Of hot bottles. Two
triplets have died so far. The other, it
is thought, will live, which the doctors
say he could not possibly have done if
he had not been brought up by ma
chinery.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

CAPTAIN PAN1Nr1NE, of the Russian
army, Tilted a daughter of General
Lazareff and married some one else.
This was regarded as such an insult by
the Lazaref family that n of the
youngllady's brothers challenged Cap
tain Panintine and killed him. The
matter being referred to the Gear he
ordered it to be tried in accordance
with the Russian law, which provides
that if the person who has provoked his
adversary to conflict kills the latter he
shall be imprisoned for six years and
eight months but that if the challenger
is killed by the challenged he shall be
imprisoned for only two years and six
months. The interesting part in this
case was to know which of the two
parties should be considered to have
provoked the duel; and as it was even
tually decided in NJ. Lazareff's favor he
escaped with the lesser penalty.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

The expedition which Mr.. Stanley is
about to lead into Africa, says the New
York San, is by far the largest and
most expensive that eve set out on a
peaceful mission in the dark continent.
Travelling in savage countries is always
very costly. 1t has been estimated
that the average expense incurred by
exploring parties in Africa is over SIS
a mile. 1t cost the English and Alge-
rian societies over $4,000 apiece for
every missionary they landed on the
shores of Victoria Nyanza. Stanley's
trip cross the continent is said to have
cost about $50, 900. DR.. Holub, who is
now working his way from South Africa
to the great lakes, took with him an
outfit that cost $25, 600. The money ex-
pended by most important expeditions
has varied from $4,000 to sc, 600. An
explorers force of porters and other
native assistants varies from about $50
souls. MI. Stanley's present expedi-
ton will include about 1000 persons,
and his travelling outfit and trade goods
have cost something over 500, 900. It
must be remembered that he is not
only trying to adequately supply the
needs of ms large party, but that he is
also carrying much clothing, ammuni-
ton, and other supplies to several
hundred persons who are numbered in
the little retinue of Emin Pasha.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

JAMES MADISON VANDEGRIFF, who
died recently in New Orleans, was, in
1888, the founder of an association of
gentlemen in that city pledged to the
mutual assistance of its members
in the event of an epidemic. Out
of this beginning grew the now world
famed Howard Association.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

The reports of the Senate and House
proceedings during the first session of
the Forty-ninth Congress occupied
1909 columns in The Congressional
Record. The House was in session
1,O49 hours and 10 minutes, the Senate,
917 hours and 4 minutes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

In Florida houses are very different
affairs from those in the North. Laths
and plaster are not essential to comfort,
and few houses have them. For the
most part the new houses in Florida
villages and in the n~ewly-cleared lands
are very small boxes, containing only
two or three rooms.